Sinopsis

MAN’S BEST FRIEND—OR SEVEREST CRITIC?

A first ?ight to a distant star is a tediously long and exceedingly dangerous experiment … really too much to ask of any reasonable man. But why use a reasonable man anyway—if there was a reasonable dog available?

And there was in the form of a dog bred just for that purpose—a dog raised biogenetically to the intelligence level of a human being, able to think, to communicate, to transmit back what people wanted to know about the planets circling Sirius.

What was not realized in advance was that a dog trained to think for people may also start thinking for its own best interests too – and that perhaps Sirius was not known as the Dog Star for nothing